Cleaning implement holder



March 24, 1953 J. F. BAGLEY, JR 2,632,194

CLEANING IMPLEMENT HOLDER Filed April 14, 1950 3 INVENTOR.

Patented Mar. 24, 1953 CLEANING IMPLEMENT HOLDER John F. Bagley, In, South Hadley, Mass. assignmto Stanley Home Prod cts, Inc., Westfield, Mass, a. corporation of Massachusetts Application April 14, 1950, Serial No. 155,889

2 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in mops an is directed to holders for mop bodies to wh ch a handle may be conn cted for manipulating the mop.

The princi al object of the invention is directed to a holder for a mop bodv which is provided with swivel means for a handle.

Moms of the t pe to which the invention relates commonly include a flexible pocket in which a holder is receivable, the pocket having a multiplicity of strands of flexible fibrous material radiating therefrom.

It has been customary to provide recesses in the frame or holder in which the legs of chairs, tables, and the like, are receivable but in spite thereof and even through the strands the chair legs and the like, are injured by the holder because it is formed from rigid material.

According to this invention, the holder has resilient end portions whereby as the mop is contacted with a chair leg or the like, the holder or frame yields to obviate injury to the chair leg while the same time the mop may be manipulated on the floor for cleaning purposes.

All of the above objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts thereof, as will fully appear by a perusal of the description below and by various specific features which will be hereinafter set forth.

To the above cited and other ends and with the foregoing and various other novel features and advantages and other objects of my invention as will become more readily apparent as the description proceeds, my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more particularly pointed in the claims hereunto annexed and more fully described and referred to in connection with accompanying drawings wherein:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a mop frame embodying the novel features of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the mop frame shown in Fig. l; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Referring now to the drawings more in detail, the invention will be fully described.

A mop frame body 2 is formed from a single piece of sheet metal by a stamping, pressing or other operation.

Opposite sides of the body have side portions 4 which are offset upwardly in planes above the plane of the main portion of the body.

Central portions of the side portions 4 are turned over and inwardly as at 6 providing spaced portions 8 at op osite ends thereof which are in the form of loops.

A bale member it having a central portion l2, as shown, has opposite ends M iournalled between portions 4 and 6.

A connecting device of a handle may be connected to portion l 3 of the bale whereby the mop carried by the frame may be manipulated.

Resilient ends it of the frame are provided and consist of a helical spring member having portions passing through and secured in the loops 8.

The loops 8 may be compressed around the nortions of the spring member therein. The resilient ends may be formed from a single length of helical spring with opposite ends thereof in adiacency in one of the loops, or there may be a pair of members having adjacent ends secured in the loops.

The body may be provided with a central opening 3.

The frame is receivable in the pocket-like portion of a mop construction, the pocket being secured to the frame in some suitable manner.

The resilient ends yield when brought up against a solid object whereby the object is not injured and the adjacent floor may be readily cleaned. The cleaning is accomplished efi'lciently while at the same time there are no recesses in the frame.

The end portions are semi-circular as shown with inner portions secured in the loops which affords sufficient rigidity for the end portions to adequately support the mop while at the same time the end portions are yieldable for the purpose intended.

The invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the essential characteristics thereof. Hence, the present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects merely as being illustrative and not as being restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all modifications and variations as fall within the meaning and purview and range of equivalency of the appended claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein.

What it is desired to claim and secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A mop holder construction comprising in combination, an elongated mop frame body of the intermediate body portion having end extremities divided longitudinally to provide a centr-al portion and side portions at opposite sides thereof arranged transversely across each end of the frame, the side portions of the extremities at each end of the frame being turned downwardly and inwardly forming aligned loops below opposite ends of theframe, said central-portions of the extremities being turned upwardly and inwardly and spaced above the upper sides of the end portions of the frame, said central portions and the end portions of the frame therebelow being formed to provide longitudinally aligned bearings rotatably receiving opposite ends of a bale extending longitudinally of the frame, an elongated bale having opposite ends rotatable .in said bearings having a central portion extending transversely of the frame for engagement by a connecting device, and a resilient member in said loops and extending from the frame.

2. A mop holder construction comprising in combination, an elongated mop frame body formed from sheet metal to have an intermediate body portion and longitudinally spaced end portions at opposite ends thereof, said end portions disposed in parallel planes spaced above the plane of the intermediate body portion having end extremities divided longitudinally to provide a central portion and side portions at opposite sides thereof arranged transversely across each end of the frame, the side portions of the extremities at each end of the frame being turned downwardly and inwardly forming aligned loops below opposite ends of the frame, said central portions of the extremities being turned upwardly and inwardly and spaced above the upper sides of the end portions of the frame, said central portions and the end portions of the frame therebelow being formed to provide longitudinally aligned bearings rotatably receiving opposite ends of a bale extending longitudinally of the frame, an elongated bale having opposite ends rotatable in said bearings having a central portion extending transversely of the frame for engagement by a connecting device, a spring-like resilient member carried by said loops having portions at opposite sides of the frame disposed outwardly from said sides in the form of closed loops extending -be tween the loops of the frame at opposite ends thereof.

JOHN F. BAGLEY, JR.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 998,532 Kibele July 18, 1911 1,526,455 Beaudet Feb. 17, 1925 1,672,890 Johnson June 12, 1928 2,261,449 Petty Nov. 4, 1941 2,262,888 Dodge Nov. 18, 1941 2,276,264 Goldfinger Mar. 10, 1942 2,325,598 Fatland Aug. 3, 1943 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 194,901 Great Britain Nov. 22, 1923 

